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San Diego realignment report: San Diego Bay shows highest contamination; PFAS archive testing planned amid program budget cuts
Summary
SAN DIEGO — A 2022 monitoring effort conducted as part of a state realignment process that centered tribal and community priorities found the highest tissue contamination among sampled sites in San Diego Bay and highlighted gaps in PFAS data.
SAN DIEGO — A 2022 monitoring effort conducted as part of a state realignment process that centered tribal and community priorities found the highest tissue contamination among sampled sites in San Diego Bay and highlighted gaps in data for PFAS and other contaminants.
The San Diego realignment, initiated in 2021 under the statewide SWAMP (Statewide Monitoring) realignment process, collected whole‑body and fillet tissue at coastal and freshwater locations identified by tribal and community advisory committee members. Anna Holder, chair of the California Water Quality Monitoring Council safety work group, presented the data report to the work group Oct. 29, 2025.
Why it matters: the project explicitly prioritized water bodies and species identified by tribes and community partners rather than traditional agency priorities, producing a dataset that better reflects subsistence and cultural consumption practices. That focus exposed…
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